Phage Therapy: A Renewed Approach to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

• Published in: Cell host & microbe Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 219 - 232
• Main Authors: Kortright, Kaitlyn E., Chan, Benjamin K., Koff, Jonathan L., Turner, Paul E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 13.02.2019

Phage therapy, long overshadowed by chemical antibiotics, is garnering renewed interest in Western medicine. This stems from the rise in frequency of multi-drug-resistant bacterial infections in humans. There also have been recent case reports of phage therapy demonstrating clinical utility in resol...